So after three years in getting my diploma, I don't think I read a single book. Homework kinda takes over your life, and since I did graphic design, there's really no encouragement to read. I have a few former classmates who are crazy about reading, own thousands of books, and were able to read tons of books even during school. I've never been that big of a reader, but I still enjoy reading, and I...

So I was tooling around on Youtube today and I came across a video on the making of the pilot for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. There was one thing the main writer Rob McElhenney said about writing the script that really stood out to me and got me inspired.Watch from the time it starts until about 3:30Video"That's the cornerstone of the whole show, to me. It shows exactly what kind of people...

(Note this isn't supposed to be some structured, well thought out argument, I'm actually just typing this as I go and maybe skimming over it for errors.)I'm going to throw out a term that some of you may have heard before called "intersectional feminism". The idea behind it in a feminist school of thought is that in our society, there are intersections where female oppression faces other...

(Sorry if you're seeing any code being wrong, Mibba needs a Preview button.)I'm very happy that Mibba still does candy bowls!Okay, well, I'm really not very good at leaving good comments or reccing stories or anything like that because my attendance on Mibba in the past five years has been... sporadic, at best, but I thought I would offer something at least.And they will all be based on a list of...

I think I may actually have a chance at truly completing NaNo this year, mostly because I have a ton of content to actually work with. Every other time I've tried NaNo, I failed miserably because I just did not have an idea developed enough. Things got lost. But since early summer, I've been working with an idea I had and have just been running with it ever since. I really think even at this point...

Remember when Tumblr was a fun place to reblog cool pictures and share cool art and meet people based on liking the same TV show? I've been on that damn site since, uh.... Well it was black when I started. I think it's been blue for a good while now. More than four years, at least. And, ugh, those four years ago were nice before... I don't know what happened. I cannot tell if the fandoms of things...

Haha wow, I'm still here. My joined dates says 2008. Whoa.I think I might do a proper proper review article at the end of the year for my (personal) favourite albums from this year. I'm going to challenge myself to narrowing it down to 10 definite bests (because I can never choose, really). I've actually done blog posts on here about some top albums of each year before, and I have on my tumblr for...

http://www.mychemicalromance.com/news/Wow I... Did not see that coming, to be honest. It's circulating on tumblr right now and I guess it JUST happened because I haven't seen a whole lot of sobbing on my dash... not just yet.I guess there will be more on why this happened later, but for now, I feel bad for the fans. I'm sure the members will do their own things (get ready for Gerard Way solo album...

A few people I follow on tumblr were talking about something about Mikey Way and some girl, and as I'm not part of the MCR fandom, I was kind of like 'lol wat'. But I used to like MCR in the Three Cheers days, so I was curious. Like a lazy person, all I did was make a text post like, "did something happen in the mcr fandom i’m really confused" and I got answers. Someone gave me this, so I'll let...

So, if you don't know who that is, I'll start there. If you do, you probably know where I'm going with this.Richey Edwards was the guitar player and main songwriter of the Manic Street Preachers until he mysteriously disappeared in 1995. To this day, neither he nor his body have been found, though he was legally "presumed dead" in 2008. Edwards suffered with depression, drug and alcohol addiction...

I saw this quote on tumblr that says everything:“Fan fiction is making teenagers better writers and better satirists, and allowing them to explore sexuality in a way decided by them rather than dictated by the entertainment industry. A purity ring doesn’t carry much meaning when Ron Weasley is pulling it off with his teeth.”sourceThe whole article is good, but that quote specifically is...

NGL, I'm really into makeup. If I wasn't in the stream of graphic design and illustration, I would likely be a makeup artist. Now, there's a few things I want to vent about, and most of them tie into social issues. But this isn't just negativity, because there are a lot of brands that do challenge some of these common problems in the beauty market. So...1. Foundation Shade SelectionIf you go to...

So, I was looking through the few documents I had been writing for the month of July, and I calculated I had written 55,679 words for the month of July. I always date my work when I open a document and start writing, so from the 1st to the 31st, that's how many words I had written in different stories. The bulk of the words were in one story, with some developing ones/shorter ones making up the...

Side-scrolling blog layouts.White text on black backgrounds.Serif fonts for webpage reading.COMIC SANS IN THE COMMENTS.The worst part is that these are all choices people have consciously made. For some reason, someone thought bright red text was a good idea. Apparently comic sans is an appropriate and serious typeface. Can you read stark white text over pitch black without getting a headache? No....

If you're writing a story and it comes to a romantic situation, it can be really hard to pull off. Sometimes I find the most effective romance in writing is when things have an incredibly little amount of detail, and most things are left to the imagination. Using metaphors and letting your words sort of float around what's happening, and really describing a character's feelings rather than saying...

Yeah, I know it happened a week or so ago, but I've been busy, okay? Anyway, this new Mibba. I don't think the new layout is a really revolutionary, knock-your-socks-off kind of change, but that's probably a good thing. It still looks like old Mibba, but better. There's things I like about it, and there's things I don't like about it. Most of the things I don't like are really nit-picky and...

It's true. I don't know why I'm here.I've been on Mibba for more than four damn years. And before that I was on GSB when their stories weren't hosted by Mibba. Since before Mibba existed, bro. I think.Basically what I'm trying to say is that if you have a story you'd like comments on, just say, and I'll comment on it. I might even do like, a proper review.I barely post stories, and I seldom read...

Ugh, I finally start working next Tuesday. Thank god, I've become a total shut-in.So, I go on Youtube because I'm obsessed with makeup tutorials. And there's about a million videos on there that are all about neutral "natural-looking" makeup. Boring-arse Naked Palette from Urban Decay (I do own the Naked 2, shhhh) or light colours or something just... boring. I don't care what people where on...

I'm downloading the Skyrim OST right now, but I'll probably be ordering the 4-disk set soon. I just can't wait for it. The music is so great in all the Elder Scrolls games. Anywho, I'm really in love with this one song called "Secunda", and found a great piano arrangement.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7jXHHgwa0owIf you've played the game, you'll probably recognize it...

So my brother just found out that someone he went to elementary school with just got arrested for physically assaulting 11-year-olds and cocaine possession.This kid is fourteen.And is it bad that I know his parents and two younger siblings are complete failures as well? And this is the same kid that sucker punched my brother at a public pool and gave him a concussion, so it's already that that...